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MONTEALEGRE ITURRA, Jorge. Virtual Archipelagos: Internet and memory records in the liquid society. Polis [online]. 2012, vol.11, n.32, pp.399-422. ISSN 0718-6568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-65682012000200019.

The filming with mobile phones of mass student demonstrationsin 2011 and of the earthquake-tsunami that struck Chile on the 27th of February2007, followed by the release on internet of these images and information-especially the videos posted on YouTube-allows us a unique opportunity to thinkupon the incorporation of the TICs into the process of recording memories. In thiscase, the reference to a "sailor" navigating the cyberspace aligns itself with respectto the semantic fields offered by the metaphor of a "liquid society". In this context,we are addressing the use of a digital heritage -the virtual community and universal sharing of images-as a catalogue of both memories and pieces of history:isolated messages, composed by both individuals and the collective that, together,form an archipelago of cultures.

Palabras clave : digital natives; collective memory; liquid society; imagery.

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